Chapter 1260: "Club Q"

After giving instructions to Xiao Tao and Xiao Bai, Chen Ling took advantage of the night to return to the Pu family.

He had set things up for Pu Jianyue, and now he just had to wait for him to come knocking... Chen Ling wasn't worried about Pu Jianyue breaking free from his control; on the contrary, he was worried that Pu Jianyue was too stupid and would leave loopholes in his plan.

Fang Liangye of the Wuji Domain was smart, partly because he was naturally intelligent, and partly because the Silver King had transferred most of Chen Ling's memories to him at the time. Anyone who experienced what Chen Ling had experienced would undergo a transformative growth.

But the memory fragments Chen Ling exchanged with Pu Jianyue this time were chosen by him personally. These memories only retained some necessary identity information; the memories that truly forged "Chen Ling" remained in Chen Ling's mind. This resulted in the current Pu Jianyue being an empty shell stuffed with memory fragments, his brain as hollow as a cracked coconut...

Plus, Pu Jianyue was a pampered young master to begin with, not particularly bright; otherwise, his training in other domains wouldn't have required so many people to clean up after him.

Chen Ling passed through one courtyard after another; the Pu family was incredibly quiet under the night sky.

The Pu family had strict rules, and most of them were already asleep at this hour. Looking out, in the deep darkness, only the window of one side room was still emitting a faint candlelight...

That was Han Meng's residence.

Chen Ling looked in that direction and stopped in the stone pavilion.

He frowned, as if hesitating whether to go knock on Han Meng's door, but after a moment of thought, he abandoned the idea.

This was the Pu family's territory, and Han Meng was a prisoner under house arrest. Although no one might be watching on the surface, if experts like the Pu family ancestor or the family head were secretly monitoring the place, meeting Han Meng in the middle of the night would be equivalent to exposing his identity, and might even implicate Han Meng.

Furthermore, Han Meng's current plight was entirely because of him.

Han Meng was different from him; he was a human, a law enforcer, destined to live in the human domain. The deeper he got involved with him, the worse Han Meng's situation would become, eventually losing the trust of the human domain and being pushed to the fringes...

No contact, no connection—it was better for both of them.

Chen Ling took one last deep look at the flickering candlelight in the side room, then turned and walked into the darkness.

Almost at the same time he turned,

Han Meng in the dim room gently pulled back a corner of the curtain...

He was wearing his black law enforcer trench coat, standing in the shadow of the candlelight, his gaze fixed on the figure gradually disappearing into the darkness, a flash of suspicion in his eyes.

Han Meng was now a Seventh-Order [Judgment] leader, extremely sensitive to gazes, especially those carrying "fear" or "hesitation." When Chen Ling stared at this place, Han Meng had sensed it.

He looked vigilantly through the window in the direction Chen Ling had left, but in the end, he only saw a blurred back...

Han Meng's eyes narrowed slightly.

……

Late at night.

A mysterious figure in a hood slowly stopped at the entrance of the hotel.

"The address in my memory is here..." Pu Jianyue looked around, and after confirming no one was paying attention, he walked in quickly.

Pu Jianyue's only clue now was this hotel, or more precisely, a certain room inside... He had an image of the room number in his memory, so finding it wasn't difficult for him, but the problem was, he didn't know if a companion or an enemy was waiting for him.

Pu Jianyue was very nervous, his palms even starting to sweat. He didn't know why his state was so poor today; he hadn't been this nervous even when facing the Silver King. He walked through the narrow corridor, looking at the room numbers passing by, his heart almost jumping out of his throat.

Under his sleeves, strands of pitch-black ink were ready to strike.

Finally,

He stopped in front of a room door.

He didn't knock. Instead, he lightly wrote the character "Open" on the doorknob with his fingertip, and the lock clicked open, swinging inward a crack...

The room didn't seem to have the lights on; it was very dark. Through the gap in the door, Pu Jianyue could see ghost-like white gauze curtains dancing in front of the open window. Just as he prepared himself to go in, a calm voice came from inside.

"What? Switched to being a thief recently?"

The moment this voice sounded, Pu Jianyue was shaken. He instinctively wanted to fling the ink from his hands, but immediately calmed down.

No... If it were an enemy, they would have acted the moment they discovered him picking the lock. Judging by the tone, the person should be an old acquaintance and meant no harm.

Pu Jianyue's heart relaxed a little. He felt he was quite smart; since he had been caught, he might as well walk in openly.

Pu Jianyue walked into the room and closed the door, only then seeing the image of the speaker.

It was a young girl wearing a small yellow cap, sitting on a chair with her legs crossed, a burning cigarette between her fingertips. The hazy moonlight outside the window dragged her shadow onto the floor, but it wasn't sitting; it looked like a stiff demon, staring straight at Pu Jianyue from another dimension.

Under the moon, a girl, a ghost shadow, a cigarette...

Pu Jianyue's heart trembled.

Who exactly was this strange girl?

As the cigarette butt turned to ash in the orange flame, Xiao Tao gently exhaled a puff of smoke. In the drifting white smoke, her gaze seemed to deepen.

"Human civilization..." Pu Jianyue said tentatively.

"Shall never be extinguished."

Xiao Tao flicked the ash casually, "Heart 6, went out for a trip and don't even recognize me anymore?"

Pu Jianyue completely relaxed now. He knew the girl in front of him was a companion from the Twilight Society and immediately answered truthfully:

"My memories were stolen by the Silver King, and now I can't remember anything..."

"The Silver King?" Xiao Tao frowned slightly, "You actually escaped alive after facing him?"

"Although I can't remember the process, I suppose so."

"As expected of Heart 6... As expected of you."

Hearing Xiao Tao's praise, the corners of Pu Jianyue's mouth lifted slightly; he seemed to enjoy this feeling of being recognized.

"I am Club Q of the Twilight Society, and the person in charge of this operation in the Nanhai Domain." Xiao Tao lifted her hand gently, and a playing card flew out from the pitch-black shadow, landing in Pu Jianyue's hand.

Pu Jianyue was somewhat shocked. He didn't know what kind of strength this girl had to be able to manipulate shadows like this; it was as if the shadow had a consciousness of its own...

"This mission is indeed more difficult than we imagined, that even the Silver King came..."

Seeing the girl so solemn and thoughtful, Pu Jianyue couldn't help but ask:

"Senior Club Q, what exactly is our mission this time?"